So it's a seedbox?
Without the seed aspect I'd imagine. I could be wrong though but seems kinda pointless/risky for the company to actually seed.
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#62Careful with the .io domain, though I've never heard of them shutting down a startup over content, their rules do state: No .IO domain may be used, directly or indirectly, for any purpose that is sexual or pornographic or that is against the statutory laws of any Nation. The "laws of any Nation" could be a rather onerous clause one hopes never gets called upon. It has happened for .ly domains...
Startups needs to think twice when they decide to use a .io domain. .io domains aren't top level domains like .com, .org, or .net. They're ccTLDs - country specific domains - like .co.uk, .us, or .com.au. Io is the local domain for the Indian Ocean states. Unlike the TLDs, and a handful of the early ccTLDs, Google doesn't treat .io as a global domain - it treats them as domains specific to the Indian Ocean. This mean…
I don't have the source (tried to find but buried), but Matt Cutts has stated because so many tech companies use .io as input/output webapp connotation, that behind the scenes, google treats it as a gTLD even though technically it's a ccTLD. I know because I did a ton of research for http://pineapple.io as well as talking to a lot of other people who were ranking their .io domain.
Likewise, there is a movement to get it officially branded as a gTLD just like .me, etc.
I would say choosing a .io domain is just fine.
Re: Upload files using torrents to your personal space with Put.io
#63I don't understand these services. If I'm going to have to download the thing anyway, why put another layer in the middle? It's always going to take less time to download directly.
One reason is that these services provide a much better upstream/outbound connection than most consumer ISPs.
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#64So what happens when copyright holders see a bunch of put.io IP addresses connected to the bit torrent swarm? Or will it be a game of whack a mole? Just interested in the general legality. I suppose no one can really monitor the downloads from random sites like megaupload... will sites like that begin to actively monitor and disable downloads from services like these (as they circumvent the ads)..?
This is their DMCA policy
Re: Upload files using torrents to your personal space with Put.io
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Startups needs to think twice when they decide to use a .io domain. .io domains aren't top level domains like .com, .org, or .net. They're ccTLDs - country specific domains - like .co.uk, .us, or .com.au. Io is the local domain for the Indian Ocean states. Unlike the TLDs, and a handful of the early ccTLDs, Google doesn't treat .io as a global domain - it treats them as domains specific to the Indian Ocean. This mean…
I don't have the source (tried to find but buried), but Matt Cutts has stated because so many tech companies use .io as input/output webapp connotation, that behind the scenes, google treats it as a gTLD even though technically it's a ccTLD. I know because I did a ton of research for http://pineapple.io as well as talking to a lot of other people who were ranking their .io domain. Likewise, there is a movement to get…
It is from a few years ago, but there is this:
> The question came up about whether it matters which TLD (top level domain) you’re using. For example, do .com domains carry more weight than a .net, .us, .info, etc. He said that TLD doesn’t matter–that’s the way Larry and Sergey originally designed the Google algorithm. The algorithm doesn’t care where the page is located, it’s all about pagerank (LINKS) of the particular page. At the end of answering this question he did admit that they might have started to look at particularly cheap (and spammy) TLDs differently than other TLDs–or they might start considering TLD in their algorithm if they’re not already doing so.
https://www.seo.com/blog/conferences/matt-cutts-does-domain-...
Re: Upload files using torrents to your personal space with Put.io
#66I really hope you are not trying to reach the spanish market... because "Putio" sounds way too much like an spanish slang word (hard to explain, lets says its a verbalized version of what in english would be "b*tch"). Something similar happened with "webOS" and every spanish forum were making jokes about it.
While I agree with the word similarities, and that it will surely be "translated" or used in Spanish with the alternate sounding words, I disagree that it's necessarily bad. It may in fact turn out to be an advantage, especially within a bit-torrent using group of people. Funny translations will give it mind-share… at least initially. Surely not in the business world, but by using torrents, that was already a given, IMO.
Re: Upload files using torrents to your personal space with Put.io
#67Either I missed it, or am a little dim this monday morning but it took me reading the whole landing page to actually figure out what it did. A "torrent gofer".
I am confused at the value though except for the remote control aspect. I can torrent at speeds that saturate my ISP or I can download from put.io and saturate my channel, either way it amounts to the same time. And I have to pay for the intermediate storage? The one benefit I see is when a torrent is slow and the person wanting the file doesn't have a computer available to cover the download period, put.io act as a store and forward server. Possibly if the client->put.io is https then this solves a problem whereby ISP's track the port usage. I suppose torrent->https is an advantage for some.
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#69Wow, the content filtering nazis didn't take too long to get at this. Websense'd as "file sharing" :(
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#70Seems like they're solving a similar problem to what I'm trying to with ntor. This is obviously way more built out and polished, though.
https://github.com/davidbanham/ntor
I'm very keen to check out their social sharing aspects. Pity they don't seem to have a mechanism for ad-hoc search.